Conor McGregor has revealed he has hired an armed guard to protect his children over US school shooting fears.
The MMA star says he has had his children at school in America while living in Las Vegas in recent weeks to film the latest series of the UFC's The Ultimate Fighter. McGregor made the revelation after sharing news of a missing child in Orlando, where he and his family have been spending time at Disneyland in recent days, as he called for "armed protection" at every school in the US.
He tweeted: "Just got an 'Amber alert' to my phone while here in Orlando. A smart and quick set up that alerts everyone there is a child missing and with full description and detail also. Very smart. I would like to see armed protection at each school also. I have had my children at school here while stateside and have had my own armed guard present at the school. This was prior to the most recent school shooting also.
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"If she shot her way in to that school from the outside, my guard, who is tucked away, armed and unseen, would have seen her and taken her down. Saving those children’s lives.
"May God and his best people on this earth protect our children!" McGregor has three children with his fiancee Dee Devlin - Conor Jr (5), Croia (4) and Rian (22 months).
The Dubliner's post comes after six people were shot dead in the latest school shooting in America this week. Three nine-year-old children, Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, were among the victims, while school head Katherine Koonce (60), custodian Michael Hill (61) and substitute teacher Cynthia Peak (61) were also killed in Nashville.
It took just 17 minutes for the lives of the students and teachers at Covenant School to change forever. That was the time from when Audrey Hale armed with two assault rifles and a pistol, shot their way into the school until they were gunned down by police.
Although 10.10am on Monday March 27 was the moment the shooting spree really began, evidence suggests the 28-year-old put a lot of planning into it. Police searched Hale's house and found a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and evidence they had clearly done surveillance before the shooting.
Hale was transgender and used male pronouns. The killer had even written a manifesto which was later found by police. The attack was the 131st mass shooting in the US so far in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as any incidents where four or more victims were injured or killed by a firearm, not including the shooter.
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